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THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER 
LIFE etc. 
MONDAY, OCT. 24, 2005
MOVIES & COMICS PAGE 8

More and more people are writing their memoirs, some with an eye to publishing, other just for their descendants. 
Story by VALERIE TAKAHAMA 
Photos by KEVIN J. SULLIVAN
The Orange County Register 

Pen Therapy

HOLLY VON HEINTZ spent her early 20s as a stripper at the Glass Slipper club in Boston. But these days, she has a pastime that's even more revealing than taking her clothes off in public. Von Heintz, 30, is one of a growing band of men and women of all ages who are writing memoirs or autobiographies in classes at UC Irvine Extension and elsewhere. Not famous or celebrated, they're everyday people spinning the raw material of their workday lives into truthful, often compelling memoirs. 

Of course, not everyone's workaday world involves 6-inch stiletto heels, $250 bottles of champagne and customers who sit near the stage in what's known as "Gynecology Row." But Von Heintz's experience as a memoirist is typical in at least one way. 

"It's more than writing - it's self discovery, really. It's part therapy, making sense of life," says Von Heintz, who has taken the memoir-writing course at UCI Extension about 10 times. 

Sang Bukaty's story couldn't be more different. Bukaty, 60, is a Newport Beach wife and mother who started the UCI Extension class to write a memoir for her children and grandchildren. 

As she began to record stories about her childhood in a prominent family in Seoul during the Korean War, her youth in an elite school with a punishing regime, her training as a promising cellist and on into 

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